Web Software Engineering: Principles, Trends, Future Challenges

2008

Web-based systems and applications now deliver a complex array of functionality to a large number of diverse groups of users. As our dependence and reliance on the Web has increased dramatically over the years, their performance, reliability and quality have become paramount importance. As a result, the development of Web applications has become more complex and challenging than most of us think. In many ways, it is also different and more complex than traditional software development. But, currently, the development and maintenance of most Web applications is chaotic and far from satisfactory. To successfully build and maintain large, complex Web-based systems and applications, Web developers need to adopt a disciplined development process and a sound methodology. The emerging discipline of Web engineering advocates a holistic, disciplined approach to successful Web development. In this chapter, we articulate and raise awareness of the issues and considerations in large, complex Web application development, and introduce Web engineering as a way of managing complexity and diversity of large-scale Web development.

Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering - SEKE '02, 2002

In the last few years our knowledge about how to develop large complex web systems have grown rapidly. In this paper we attempt to arrange this knowledge into a schema based on how our knowledge gets matured as we get more experience in developing large complex web systems. Based on this we propose a systematic approach to developing large complex web systems. We call this body of knowledge consisting of technologies, methodologies and standards that enable us to successfully develop large complex web systems Web Engineering.

2001

The expanding role of the Web as a content and applications deployment platform and the appearance of new computing paradigms, such as thin-client computing, require now more than ever the introduction of concrete development frameworks. Although new approaches, technologies, tools, commercial applications appear daily, limited guidelines or frameworks exist that can assist Web developers in selecting the proper methodology and tools for the design, implementation and maintenance of flexible Web content and applications. Our work, triggered from our experience in implementing the Web presence of several large Greek Governmental organisations, attempts to address the major current and forthcoming problems that Web developers face. We propose a framework (RDF/XML based) that will act as a malleable development support environment, incorporating specific guidelines, which Web developers should always consider. The primary goals are achieving scalability (modular, component-based architecture), re-usability and technology independency in Web development. We focus on hypermedia content and applications.

2014

Abstract. The expanding role of the Web as a content and applications de-ployment platform and the appearance of new computing paradigms, such as thin-client computing, require now more than ever the introduction of concrete development frameworks. Although new approaches, technologies, tools, com-mercial applications appear daily, limited guidelines or frameworks exist that can assist Web developers in selecting the proper methodology and tools for the design, implementation and maintenance of flexible Web content and applica-tions. Our work, triggered from our experience in implementing the Web pres-ence of several large Greek Governmental organisations, attempts to address the major current and forthcoming problems that Web developers face. We propose a framework (RDF/XML based) that will act as a malleable development sup-port environment, incorporating specific guidelines, which Web developers should always consider. The primary goals are achieving scalability (modular, compone...

Computing Research Repository, 2011

The sole goal of E-Governance is to allow interaction of government with their citizens in a comfortable & transparent manner. Uniqueness of J2EE makes it a perfect technology for development of any online portal. These involve constancy, easy to replant, construct speedily etc. In this paper we present a procedural approach to develop a web application using the J2EE Struts Framework.

DuringOctg.' , November and December 2000, weconduct. intct.`4 wit a number of people witle organisat4IC in t. Unitz Kingdom who are involved in t. development of Web-basedapplicatRPPR The goals of t. survey were t t' t identR. more clearlyte major issues facingtc development of Web-based systed. andt see which, if any,tRRRC.`4C9 softRC e engineeringpracteer and t.4H4zC.` were being successfully applied. Fifted inted..z'zI from seven different organisat`44 tan part in t. survey. This paper describests background and result of our survey, and td conclusionston can be drawnabout to practI9 of Web Engineering. We also discussts majorcharactII.`4'9 tha describe Web-basedapplicatIR development and td issuestsu a successful Web engineering process will have t address. Moredet49z oft.' survey can be found in ourtr.xzHxx report [13] `A Survey of Web Engineering in Pract'.`x Keywords: Web Engineering, Software Engineering, Case Studies, Practice, Software Process, Web...

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2001

The series of workshops on Web Engineering started in 1998 with the World Wide Web Conference WWW7 in Brisbane, Australia, and has continued with WWW8 (Toronto, 1999) and WWW9 (Amsterdam, 2000). The first such workshop with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) took place in 1999 in Los Angeles. The second workshop was held on 4-5 June 2000 in Limerick, Ireland and attracted about 30 participants.The main purpose behind these workshops is to share and pool the collective experience of people, both academics and practitioners, who are actively working on Web-based systems.This workshop consisted of two keynote addresses, 11 contributed papers and two sessions of open discussions. The call for papers elicited 18 submissions of which 11 were accepted after peer reviews. The papers presented at the workshop appear in the book Web Engineering (San Murugesan and Yogesh Deshpande (eds.), LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 2000).

10th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED …, 2010

The paper presents two web development projects in different timeframes. The focus is on the technology used and architecture applied and also on the speed and quality of product achieved. We would like to discuss the progress that has been made in web development in just five years (at least in our team). We have been working in our department on two web based projects (up to four developers) with comparable content. The first one, Dictionary of military terminology "DICTIONARY", has started in 2005. The second one, Research portal for university staff "RESEARCH", has started in 2009. In the first part of the paper, the projects are shortly introduced, than the architecture is discussed and finally the progress in web development that has been made using application frameworks is demonstrated.

IEEE Multimedia, 2001

based systems and the continual change of their information content. Web-based systems need to be designed and built for scalability and maintainability; these features cant be added later. Success in building, implementing, and maintaining a Web-based system largely depends on how well we address these issues.

The popularity of the World Wide Web has been increasing ever since its birth in the early 1990's. It rapidly became an important medium for content providers to publish documents for the masses. In the beginning, the content was delivered in the form of static pages but more interactive applications were soon to follow. The birth of e-commerce and other online services created a demand for better and more feature rich applications. However, web standards were not able to meet these requirements in a timely fashion which led to a situation where browser makers and web developers were forced to partially disregard to the standards to fulfill the market demand.